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🚨BREAKING: Boris Johnson has received Sue Gray's full 'partygate' report at Downing Street
🗣️A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "We can confirm that Sue Gray has provided her final report to the Prime Minister."

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🔴Sue Gray’s partygate report is understood to be 37 pages long.

It also has nine photos – including pictures of Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Simon Case
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❓Will the report be published before PMQs?

Downing Street has previously committed to publishing the Sue Gray report as soon as possible after it has been received.

Now that it is in No 10's possession Westminster is still waiting for it to appear
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➡️Boris Johnson's statement in the House of Commons in response to the Sue Gray report is expected to begin immediately after #PMQS
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🚨BREAKING: The Sue Gray report into the partygate scandal has now been published by the Government
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🔴Sue Gray said in her report that "whatever the initial intent" of some of the partygate gatherings, what took place at many of them "was not in line with Covid guidance at the time"
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🗣️The official Sue Gray report states that it is the "senior leadership" in Downing Street who must "bear responsibility" for the culture in No 10 during the pandemic

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Boris Johnson oversaw an overhaul of the Downing Street operation after Sue Gray published her damning interim report.

💬Ms Gray said in her full report that she was "pleased progress is being made in addressing the issues I raised"
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The Sue Gray report includes photos from the Prime Minister's birthday event and the November party where Mr Johnson toasted with champagne.

See the nine pictures here 👇
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🔴Sue Gray said that during the course of her investigation she was made aware of "multiple examples" of "unacceptable" behaviour towards No 10 security and cleaning staff
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💬Sue Gray said that the fact senior members of staff were in attendance at some partygate gatherings should be taken into account if and when disciplinary action is taken against officials
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In her findings Sue Gray says “some members of staff drank excessively” at some events.

At a party on June 18, 2020, she reports that “one individual was sick” and “there was a minor altercation between two other individuals”
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🗣️Sue Gray said that the parties and behaviour in No 10 during the pandemic "did not reflect the prevailing culture in Government" at the time.

"Many thousands of people up and down the country worked tirelessly to deliver in unprecedented times"
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Boris Johnson will be grilled at PMQs before then delivering a statement in the House of Commons in response to Ms Gray’s findings.

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🔴A Downing Street chief boasted they had "got away with" partygate rulebreaking, Sue Gray's report has revealed

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🗓️There were 15 parties thought to have taken place in Downing Street or government departments between May and December 2020.

Here they are in detail 👇
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Read Sue Gray's report in full ⬇️
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Boris Johnson is now delivering his statement in the House of Commons.

🗣️"I want to say above all that I take full responsibility for everything that took place on my watch"

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🗣️Boris Johnson: "It is important to set out that over a period of about 600 days gatherings on a total of eight dates have been found to be in breach of the regulations in a building that is 5,300 metres square, across five floors, excluding the flats"
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💬Boris Johnson told the House of Commons that No 10 staff were working "extremely long hours" during the pandemic.

He told the Commons that "it was appropriate to recognise them, to thank them for the work they had done"
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The PM said: "Some of these gatherings went on far longer than was necessary and they were clearly in breach of the rules and they fell foul of the rules"

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The Prime Minister told MPs that he had been "humbled and I have learned a lesson".

💬He said his hope is that "we will be able to move on and focus on the priorities of the British people"
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🗣️Sir Keir Starmer told the Commons that "a failure of leadership" has now left the Government "paralysed in the middle of a cost of living crisis"
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Even if Boris Johnson fights on, there are several moments of danger coming up over the coming days, weeks and months that could yet take his future out of his own hands.

Here we examine the six possible scenarios that could play out before 2024⬇️
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🔴A party held in the Downing Street flat, at which it was reported Carrie Johnson and friends played loud Abba music, was not fully investigated by Sue Gray because she concluded it would not be "appropriate or proportionate" to do so

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🗣️The Prime Minister gave a lengthy statement in which he took "full responsibility" for all the wrongdoing highlighted in the document.

Here is the Prime Minister's apology in full⬇️
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📊A snap poll published by YouGov has revealed three in five people - 59% - believe Boris Johnson should resign as Prime Minister following the publication of the Sue Gray report.

That number includes 27% of 2019 Tory voters
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🔴NEW: Boris Johnson to address the nation

Watch this live here 👇
🗣️Mr Johnson has said: "It is precisely because I have learned this lesson that I feel an even greater weight of responsibility to deliver on the priorities of the British people and lead our country through some of the most challenging times"
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🔴Boris Johnson defends attending leaving dos for No 10 staff

"I was saying farewell to valued colleagues. I know that some people will think it was wrong even to do that. I have to say I respectfully disagree"
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➡️Boris Johnson refuses to be drawn on potential disciplinary action

"Everybody who is in any way involved in this whole sorry business has got to learn the lessons and that applies to everybody in the report"
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🔴Boris Johnson would not be drawn on whether he had considered resigning.

"All I can say is that I really think given everything that is going on right now it is my job to get on and serve the people of this country."

"I have got to keep moving forward"
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🔴NEW: Boris Johnson tells nation 'there is no cover-up'

Keep up with the latest updates in our liveblog here ⬇️
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🚨The Archbishop of Canterbury: "Sue Gray’s report shows that culture, behaviour and standards in public life really matter. We need to be able to trust our institutions"
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🚨Julian Sturdy, MP for York Outer, has said it is "now in the public interest" for Johnson to resign.

Mr Sturdy has become the first new name to call for Mr Johnson to leave No 10 since the publication of Sue Gray's
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🔴NEW: Boris Johnson refuses to resign as Tory MP calls for him to go

Follow the latest updates on our #Politics live thread here ⬇️
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